1. UNIT º ESO
PRESENT CONTINUOUS v. PRESENT SIMPLE

2. INFINITIVE
GERUND
PARTICIPLE Be
Ser/estar
Being
Siendo/estando
Been
Sido/estado
Have
Tener/haber
Having
teniendo
Had
Tenido
Live
Vivir
Living
Viviendo
Lived
Vivido
Fly
Volar
Flying
Volando
Flown
Volado
Study
Estudiar
Studying
Estudiando
Studied
Estudiado
Put
Poner
Putting
Poniendo
Puesto
Work
Trabajar
Working
Trabajando
Worked
Tradajado Go Ir
Going
Yendo
Gone
Ido Do
Hacer
Doing
Haciendo
Done
Hecho
Come
Venir
Coming
Viniendo
Venido
Write
Escribir
Writing
Escribiendo
Written
Escrito

3. (estar) (-ando / -endo) BE + VERB-ing (reading)
Examples
You’ re studying now
The teacher is speaking
The computer is working
You are not eating
It’s raining
The sun isn’t shining
My brother isn’t painting the house at the moment, maybe he is studying
My mother is working and my father is reading the newspaper
What is your mother doing right now?
Where are you sitting now?
What is your father doing?
(estar) (-ando / -endo)
BE + VERB-ing (reading)

4. As you can see all the previous sentences have the same structure
As you can see all the previous sentences have the same structure. They all have two verbs: TO BE and a GERUND (gerundio in Spanish- cantando, (singing) jugando (playing)…)
In continuous tenses you always need these two verbs
And remember you always need to have a subject in English
Do you remember how to make a Gerund in English?

5. GERUND Infinitive verb + ING Most of the verbs Verbs ending with –E
Work Do Eat Go Catch Look Talk
Play Study Fly
Playing Studying Flying
Verbs ending with –E
Live Be Have Change Practice Escape Hide Write
Living Being Having Changing Practicing Escaping Hiding Writing
Verbs ending with VOWEL + CONSONANT
Sit Run Swim
Sitting Running Swimming
Working Doing Eating Going Catching Looking Talking

6. Work
Working
study
Studying
Put
Putting
Live
Living
Escape
Escaping
Run
Running
Eat
Eating
Catch
Catching
Ride
Riding

7. TO BE I’m You are He is She is It is We are They are I’m not Am I…?
AFFIRMATIVE
NEGATIVE
INTERROGATIVE
I’m You are He is She is It is We are They are
I’m not
You aren’t
He’s not
She’s not
It’s not
We’re not
You’re not
They’re not
Am I…?
Are you…?
Is she…?
Is he …?
Is it…?
Are we …?
Are they …?

8. THEY ARE HAVING FUN HE IS SINGING THEY ARE DANCING HE IS LAUGHING
THEY ARE TALKING
THEY ARE DRINKING

9. GRAMMATICAL STRUCTURE

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13. LET’S MAKE A GAME CLOSE YOUR EYES ALL OF YOU I SAID ALL OF YOU! OK
IMAGINE IT’S SATURDAY MORNING
WHAT ARE YOU DOING NOW?
WHAT DO YOU USUALLY DO ?

14. Shhhhh! Be quiet! John (sleep) ____________
DRIVES
Every Monday, Sally (drive)_____________ her kids to football practice.
Usually, I (work)__________ as a secretary, but this summer I (study) ______________ French at a language school in Paris. That is why I am in Paris.
Shhhhh! Be quiet! John (sleep) ____________
Don't forget to take your umbrella. It (rain) _______________
I hate living in Santander because it (rain, always) _________________
I'm sorry I can't hear what you (say)______________ because everybody (talk)_____________ so loudly.
This delicious chocolate (be) __________________made by a small chocolatier in Zurich, Switzerland.
Water ________ at a temperature of 100 degrees Celsius (boil).
Here in Montreal the winters are very long and it ________ a lot. (snow)
I'm sorry. Bob can't come to the phone. He __________ a shower. (have)
WORK
AM STUDYING
IS SLEEPING
IS RAINING
ALWAYS RAINS
ARE SAYING
IS TALKING IS
BOILS
SNOWS
IS HAVING

15. I ____________ (like) cinema very much.
At the moment they ____________ (stand) in the rain.
What time ____ they usually ________ (wake up)?
These people ____________(feel) very angry at the moment because of the traffic
She ______________(usually/drink) milk because she usually___________(like) it very much.
He ____________ (be) too fast now
It ____________ (get) late. I must go now.
I ________________ (work), so please be quiet!
____________ she _____________( read) at the moment?
ARE STANDING DO
WAKE
ARE FEELING
USUALLY DRINKS
LIKE
IS EATING
IS GETTING
AM WORKING IS
READING

16. ACTIVITIES
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